Day After The Storm

Union University's Lindsay Parrish of Memphis gets a hug from fellow student Eric Uwiringigimana of Rawanda as they look for the wreckage of her car at Union University in Jackson, TN where a tornado ripped through dorms and overturned cars Tuesday night. Parrish was injured when her dorm, Wingo collapsed from the storm.

Union University student Katie Moser of Bartlett searches her car for valuables at Union University in Jackson, TN where a tornado ripped through dorms and overturned cars Tuesday night.

Jackson Police officers and firefighters keep student off the campus Wednesday morning at Union University in Jackson, TN where a tornado ripped through dorms and overturned cars Tuesday night.

Courtney Wade gives her father James Wade a hug after he arrived to pick her up at Union University. Wade, of Morristown, Tenn., escaped from the ground floor of a dormitory that collapsed when a tornado ripped through Jackson, Tenn., Tuesday night.

Union University students wander past the girls dorm Wednesday morning even though officials, for safety reasons, were keeping students away from the rubble at Union University in Jackson, TN where a tornado ripped through dorms and overturned cars Tuesday night.

Julia Ayers of Memphis huddles with her mother Myra Beasley in the cold outside her sister's dorm at Union University in Jackson, TN where a tornado ripped through dorms and overturned cars Tuesday night.

"It's just a car. It's just a car," Says Union University student Courtney Moore as she walks away from her wrecked car at Union University in Jackson, TN where a tornado ripped through dorms and overturned cars Tuesday night.

Kristen Nicole Sayres

Teresa Ellis, a manager at FDL Inc. on Chrysler Dr. in South East Memphis, looks over an area that was once her office. The building she works in collapsed Tuesday night in the tornado's. She was told when she arrived that an employee had spent the whole night in one of the bathrooms in the crushed building, but that employee, she said was unharmed. Employees of several companies located near one of the hardest hit areas showed up early Wednesday. Several buildings were damaged in the industrial area off Raines Road.

A group of tractor trailors lay tangled together on their side at a destroyed warehouse on Chrysler drive south of Raines along the path of Tuesday night's storm.

Utility poles sustained major damage from Tuesday's weather along Shelby Drive near the cross street of Quality Drive.

Memphis Light Gas and Water showed up early Wednesday in one of the hardest hit areas. The area was the 5600 block of Challenge Drive where there were fatalities. Several buildings were damaged in the industrial area off Raines Road. Many people drove by looking for pictures.

500,000 volt lines are down of Moose Road due to the storm that passed through Shelby County Feb 5th.

Chris Desmond

Linda Mitchell gathers some belongings as she and her family prepare to move into a hotel room. Her family awoke to survey the damage to her home on Godwin Road, in Arlington. Mitchell is counting her blessings saying that things could have been a lot worse. "We took shelter in a closet and just prayed," said Mitchell.

Chris Desmond

Lafayette County, MS residents begin digging out after a powerful tornado ripped through the county on Tuesday night. Residents along county road 291 were hard hit. Ann Russell sorts through the debris of the house where she was born and lived. At right is neighborhood dog named "Jade."

After going missing since the tornado, Harley the dachshund wriggled out from under a pile of debris unharmed Wednesday. Niki Pruitt holds her grandparents' dog moments after discovery along county road 291 in Lafayette County, Miss., where residents were hard hit.

Southaven firefighter Todd Ferguson strings caution tape around a warehouse near State Line and Airways that was heavily damaged by Tuesday evening's storm.

Trailers were tossed into the wreckage of this warehouse near State Line and Airways by Tuesday evening's storm.

Andrea Uzrail becomes emotional as she talks to contractor Marcus Gibbs about not being able leave work to get home to her 16 year old daughter (Feliza Chagolla) who was trapped alone in their home located 5714 Maple Tree Dr. Debris from tornado damage prevented Feliza from being able to move. She had to be rescued by a family friend. According to Uzrail items including a computer, a television, clothing, and food were stolen from her home in the hours following Tuesday's tornadoes.

Family and friends help move the belonging of Andrea Uzrail from the storm damaged house she rents on Maple Tree Drive in Hickory Hill. According to Uzrail items were looted from her home.

Nancy Russell gathers belongings to take with her Wednesday afternoon at 3879 Pinbranch Ct. According to Russell the Pinbranch Ct. street sign blew into her home after Tuesday's tornado. She plans to stay with relatives.

The pages of a Bible flap in the breeze amid the debris in Neal Glover's front yard left by Tuesday's tornado that touched down in Fayette County, TN. Glover was in his pickup truck in drive of his home on Yum Yum Rd when the storm struck and died when the vehicle was destroyed.